Surgeon s operating-table



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I'. VW. VLOUGHRIQLN. SURGBONS OPERATING TABLE.

N0.595,322. Patented Deo. 14', 1897.

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. P.'W. LOUGHRAN.

SURGEONS OPERATING TABLE. No. 595,322. Patented Deo. 14,1897.

UNiTnn STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FREDERIC IV. IJOUGIIRAN, OF NEWY YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO SYDNEY II.

OARRAGAN, OF BROOKLYN, NEV YORK.

SURGEONS OPERATING-TABLE SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 595,322, dated December 14, 1897. Application filed April 5, 1897. Serial No. 630,730. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, FREDERIC W. LOUGH- RAN, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Surgeons Operating-Tables, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in surgeons operatingtables, and has for its object the production of a simple and inexpensive table, the parts of which are so arranged that they may be adjusted in different relative positions for the purposes of facilitating physical examinations and performing surgical and gynecological operations.

To these ends, therefore, my said invention consists in the novel features, in the details of construction, and in the arrangement and combination of parts, all as hereinafter more fullydesoribed, and pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, forming part hereof, in the several gures of which like parts are similarly designated, Figure l is a side elevation of my improved table. Fig. 2 is a top plan view showing the head and foot leaves extended and the supports for the leaves, die., in broken lines. Fig. 3 is an end view showing the foot-leaf in its lowered position. Fig. 4 is a view of the opposite end, showing the head-leaf in raised position. Fig. 5 is a side view showing the head and body leaves raised, the foot-leaf dropped, and the stirrup-braces extended. Fig. 6 is a similar view showing the foot-leaf raised; and Fig. 7 is a longitudinal sectional view, partly in elevation, showing the parts in their most extended positions.

a represents the table-legs, and Zi the usual side and end rails. The table-top proper com prises the leaf c, rigidly secured to the rails b, and the body-leaf CZ, hinged to c and free to move vertically in an arc of a circle. A head-leaf eis hinged to the outer end of bodyleaf d, and a foot-leaf f, having the two slots or openings f at its top edge, to the outer end of leaf c.

g is a bar sliding longitudinally through a suitable opening in the end rail h and between guides h, arranged and held between the side rails b of the table. Said bar is provided with a series of notches on its upper face and also, preferably, with the stops fz' z". Then extended, the bar g forms a brace or support for the head-leaf e, when the same is in its horizontal position, as shown in Figs. l, 2, 4, and 7, and in the notches of said bar g the outer end of head-leaf c may be placed when it is desired to raise the body-leaf d at an angle, as shown in Figs. 5 and At the opposite end of the table are arranged two sets of preferably divergent guides or ways j, within which slide the bars 7o, provided at their outer ends with the stirrups l. Vhen the foot-leaf f is raised, as in Figs. 2, 6, and 7, the bars 7o form firm supports therefor, and when said leaf is lowered the bars may be extended through the openings f in said leaf, as in Fig. 5, and the stirrups Z be engaged by the heels of the patient.

For ordinary physical examinations the table may be used as in Figs. 2 and 7; for oper-- ations on the upper parts of the body as in Fig. 6; for the dorsal position in gynecologioal operations, as in Fig. 5; for the Sims position as in Fig. 5, with the left stirrup only extended, and for Trendelenberg position as in Fig. 6, with the head of the patient on the foot-leaf and the limbs over the body and head leaves.

It will be apparent from the foregoing that while my improved table is strong and sin1- ple and may be cheaply constructed it is susceptible of many different changes and combinations which will meet all of the usual needs of the operator and also permits the position of the patient to be changed while on the table.

IVhat I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

l. In a surgeons operating-table, a top comprising a fixed and a hinged leaf; in combination with end leaves hinged to the opposite ends of said top; a slidable notched bar adapted to support one of said end leaves in horizontal position and to engage in its notches the outer edge of said end leaf to support the same and the movable top portion in angular position; and slidable braces adapted to support the opposite end leaf in horizontal position, substantially as described.

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2. In a surgeons operating-table, a top cornprising a iixed and a hinged leaf; in combination with an end leaf hinged to said fixed portion and provided at its upper edge with slots or openings; an oppositelend leaf hinged to the movable portion of the top; a notched slidable bar adapted to support said end leaf in horizontal position and t0 engage in its notches the outer edge of said end leaf to support the same and the movable top portion in angular position; and slidable bars arranged at the opposite end 0f the table and provided with stirrups, said bars being adapted to be extended through the slots or openings in the end leaf, While the latter is in lowered position, and also to support said leaf in its horizontal position, substantially as described.

Signed at New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, this d day of April, A. D. 1897.

FREDERIC YV. LOUGHRAN. Witnesses:

S. I-I. CARRAGAN, FREDERIC CARRAG-AN. 

